Instagram - September

Feeling brave after the success of July and August so I thought I would have a very specific theme. Seahorse. I have so many around my house that I thought this was going to be easy. Helen in Canada was really enjoying these as her mum used to love seahorses so to celebrate her birthday I made a pack of notelet cards and posted them to her. the Seahorses have gone transatlantic.

September:



September - Seahorse-tastic this was a great idea that was only finished
with the help of friends as my supply of seahorses dwindled!

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Instagram - August

Getting into the swing of the whole Instagram package now and thought I would be a little more personal with the images through August. If you know me then you know what some of these images refer to. If you are a friend on Facebook or follow me on twitter you may have also seen some of the comments on these images. Towards the end of July my cousin in Canada began to comment on the images and it was her that made sure I carried on into August - so thank you Helen.

August:

August - Lots of exciting things happened during this month and they are subtly
represented here. I couldn't resist the copy of the photograph of my Mum and I

 

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Instagram - July

I may have mentioned that since acquiring my iPhone I have been distracted by using the instagram app and posting images onto twitter and facebook via that. This has meant I have been failing to put things on this lovely blog - so I thought I would show you what each month of instagram images looked like shown together.

I started it in July - so let's start with the July Challenge images. These were random and not at all focused just me getting used to how it all worked and what I could (or could not) do with the phone's camera and the instagram package.

July:

July - Started with finding the letter 'T' and moved on to the letter'O' or
circles then parallel lines and then numbers and letters

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Evening out to a gig to see John Cooper Clarke - the Salford Bard. Some people just get better with age and although I do believe his legs are even thinner than they have ever been - he was in fine voice and exercising his raconteur skills. I have to do something with his joke: "What does chesse say when having a photograph taken?"

 

The gig was in Birmingham Town Hall - what a spectacular venue. Let's see if I can find images to show you:

The thin legs of John Cooper Clarke



Walking around the bubbly building to get to the venue



The ceiling inside the bubbly building

The ceiling inside the Town Hall - it was rather spectacular

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tut tut tut

Such a long time since I have been on here. You'll be glad to hear that it is because I have been busy. Since being distinguished with my Degree the business has gone from strength to strength. I had the most fabulous August and if I can maintain work to those levels then my future is secured.

The exhibitions - at the Making House and the Melbourne Arts Trail - went very well. Learnt so much from putting up an exhibition. They are exhausting, great fun, challenging and rewarding all at once. It is good to get your work out there in front of people and it is an excellent way to gauge how well your work goes down by speaking to people that see it for the first time. Will definitely be doing the Melbourne Arts Trail next year. Next exhibition is PINT Arts Festival, Burton - which I shall blog about separately.

Have helped set up Outline - a network group for creative people in and around East Staffordshire. The second meeting was held last week and it goes from strength to strength. Finding fellow creative people makes life so much easier and we can all help each other out - which is marvelous.

Have enjoyed my new iPhone and challenging myself to capture an image, and post it using Instagram, every day. This can be rewarding and frustrating in equal measure. I shall blog about the  challenge soon and have an idea of showing each months all together to see what emerges. To this end I ensured that September was all one theme - seahorses. This was frustrating because by focussing on one thing I was missing other opportunities, so in October I will amend my challenge.

Great to see friends being rewarded with awards, receiving commissions, getting their dream job, and finding love - oh hang on that's all me. But seriously it is great to see my friends developing and continuing with their love and passion for photography and all things creative.

Photography gang on tour - St Andrews, Sept 12 - shooting every angle

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